Video: Warren driver attacks Republican tracker

posted at 1:21 pm on August 27, 2012 by Ed Morrissey

Alternate headline: Unemployment in Massachusetts Ticks Up By One Job. Seriously, how dumb is this? It’s so dumb that the last candidate who ran against Scott Brown for US Senate did the same thing, as the Weekly Standard reminds us. How well did that work out for Martha Coakley again?

The Republican staffer holding the camera films Warren leaving the event and entering her SUV. One of Warren’s aides, who looks to be, perhaps, her driver, pushes the camera twice, and the second time it falls to the ground. The tracker picks up the camera and continues filming, while the Warren staffer says, “Dude, get out of my face or I’m going to call the police.”

It was a public event, it was on public property, and there is nothing in the video to suggest that the tracker did anything to provoke the assault. Trackers have become a fact of life on the campaign trail, thanks to the decline in the cost of recording everything. In fact, this is precisely the kind of thing that trackers want to catch on camera, along with candidate gaffes and inconsistencies. How smart is it to hand that kind of event to one’s opponent on a silver platter?

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The tracker was within a few seconds of causing that driver to become completely unhinged. If I’d have been filming I’d have let him push me down or something to where he’d be screaming uncontrollably, while his squaw candidate just sat in the car.

Not saying I’m a meanie or anything, but after picking myself up I could have dealt with that bug using minimal effort.

Liberals often have poor impulse and emotion control, which is why they favor gun control. They’re quite certain that they’re a cut above the average person, so everybody else must have the same flaw, only worse, and would shoot everything in sight given the slightest provocation.

Lizzy’s campaign just released a statement that said in part that she did not see the confrontation but it was wrong. The driver was referred to as simply a cab driver…We got to find out who that short angry man really is!

Lizzy’s campaign just released a statement that said in part that she did not see the confrontation but it was wrong. The driver was referred to as simply a cab driver…We got to find out who that short angry man really is!

Lizzy’s campaign just released a statement that said in part that she did not see the confrontation but it was wrong. The driver was referred to as simply a cab driver…We got to find out who that short angry man really is!

d1carter on August 27, 2012 at 2:29 PM

One of the men addressed the other as “Tom.” Seems like a pretty casual way to address someone. They obviously know each other well enough to use first names.

The saga of the tone-deaf moonbat in Taxachusetts continues. Oak Bluffs looks beautiful, though, I must say. Wife and I got engaged right there in that park/gazebo overlooking Nantucket Sound.

Also attended a Scott Brown rally in Middleboro, MA during last election. He made a very good natured reference/jab at Martha Coackley’s tracker who was filming. Not one person in the large crowd did anything untoward to the tracker. And who is the uncivil party, again?

“It is our tradition for the father to name his children something he sees right after they are born…as an example, over there is ‘Flying Hawk’, and over there is ‘Running Horse’……tell me, why do you ask, Two Dogs F***ing?”

They took 1/32nd of the Harvard Nation
And put Warren on their reservation
Took away her white man’s life
Savory crabs and her butter knife
They took away her hot crossed buns
Her omelettes gave them all the runs
Mayonnaise and a can of Spam
Pow Wow Chow ain’t her Uncle Sam

Harvard Law people, Harvard Law tribe
So proud to hire, so proud to hide

They took the whole John Harvard Nation
Affirmative action reservation
And though she rules at Harvard Law
Deep down inside she’s just a squaw

Harvard Law people, Harvard Law tribe
So proud to hire, so proud to hide

a form of physical punishment wherein a captive is to run between two rows—a gauntlet—of soldiers who repeatedly strike him.

Native American usage

A number of Native American tribes of the Eastern Woodlands culture area forced prisoners to run the gantlet. (See Captives in American Indian Wars.) The Jesuit Isaac Jogues was subject to this treatment while a prisoner of the Iroquois in 1641. He described the ordeal in a letter that appears in the book The Jesuit Martyrs of North America [7]: “Before arriving (at the Iroquois Village) we met the young men of the country, in a line armed with sticks…”, and he and his fellow Frenchmen were made to walk slowly past them “for the sake of giving time to anyone who struck us.”

“It is our tradition for the father to name his children something he sees right after they are born…as an example, over there is ‘Flying Hawk’, and over there is ‘Running Horse’……tell me, why do you ask, Two Dogs F***ing?”

I know a neat little pressure hold applied to the hand, between thumb and forefinger, that in no way looks like an assault, but would have Knobby Knees Duck Walker writhing in pain in less time than you can say Indian.

I saw that. Wonder when it was removed? And the “crew” they show are..geez I don’t know. Except for the older gentleman, let’s just say they look more like Deliverance guides.

Deanna on August 27, 2012 at 2:58 PM

Heh. While MV is a summer-time playground for the opulent “summer dinks,” the year-round residents of MV and Nantucket (i.e. Dukes County) have one of the lowest per capita incomes in the state. LOTS of blue collar service types that still drink the Kennedy democrat kool aid.

Before the evening news cycle look for the story to be that the staffer was attacking and attempting to scalp Warren and the driver was only defending her.Comments have been blocked on the video by YouTube.

docflash on August 27, 2012 at 1:40 PM

Uhhhm…. the uploader decides whether anyone can comment or not. Perhaps you worded this slightly incorrectly? I am far from condoning anything like what is depicted in the video, but let’s not be creating drama or conspiracy… the left can do all that without our help.

Can someone explain why what the driver did was not assault? It seems to me that the cameraman should have agreed with the driver’s threat to call the police. The cameraman, after all, has the video evidence which counts for a lot, especially in the court of public opinion.

The Warren campaign has attempted to distance itself from the hot-headed cabbie.

“The person featured in the video was not a member of the Elizabeth Warren for Massachusetts staff. He is a cab driver. Elizabeth did not see what happened,” a Warren spokeswoman said in a statement, according to the Boston Globe.

The last few years the Democrat Party has been using more and more thuggish tactics. At OWS there were always conflicts going on. In Wisconsin they tore the interior and exterior of the Capitol Building up while protesting. I can not understand how so many assaults go unpunished.

Democrats are crazy… and violent….and they lie….alot! Democrats are in control of America… No budget in 3 1/2 years… the Dems are coming unhinged like angry spoiled teen aged children on crack… Keep pushing at them and they will expose their true nature. Hit them with their record. THEY OWN this dismal economy and our massive Trillions of dollars of debt!

Warren…… What kind of people vote for folks like this… oh yeah… the CABBIE!